Thread: Why do we seek Lucid Dreams?

One of my big reasons is fulfilling all my desires if you will, so I no longer 'cling' to unfinished business, also the feeling of liberation is great. Also I want to do some Buddhist stuff in it like sit in the lotus pose, say some mantras, visit tibet and meet and talk to a Buddha and what bsurfer2d3 sorta sums it up- find out who I truly am, who the dreamer behind the waking life is.

it's a kick-ass subject to write a school paper on, huh?

for me, the main reason I like to lucid dream is....

....for fun! But of course, I have other applications of it, and the self-discovery aspects of it is nothing to underestimate; I've realized that you can find out so much more about yourself than you thought you knew when you're in a dream state. It's as if the walls of the dam that holds your subconscious breaks, and everything lets loose, and it's just mind boggling to see how much information your brain actually holds (excluding all spiritual aspects, of course)

and after having a very thorough lucid dream, I wake up with that feeling of completion, like I didn't just sleep through the night, I had an adventure.

To get the hell away from the mindnumbing tedium of reality.

I'm not having much luck so far, mind...

Experiment real life things and have fun at the same time, never learning was so funny in my life lol

For me lucid dreaming is the ultimate video game, its like virtual reality. As a game designer myself, this presents itself as the ultimate 3d engine, my own personal sandbox to play God in. If I could stay lucid I would never bother waking up.

Simple. Because it is better than not lucid dreaming when you go to sleep.

Thank all of you very much for your responses. So far it seems to me like people generally want to lucid dream to accomplish desires they feel they are unable to (due either to inconvenience or legality) do in real life.

For those of you still willing to help me in my research, do you feel like experiencing these things in a lucid dream is as fulfilling and satisfying as doing it in real life? Is there a sense of emptiness? Are you able to experience with all five sense in your lucid dreams?

Thanks very much,

O-Suchin